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MOTORING SUPPL

TAKING THE LEAD ON A BEND.

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

HARLEY DAVIDSON

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29. 1924

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OLDEST SERVICE TO MOTORISTS

BILL

Ever Been Held Up By a Big Repair Bill?

CHANCES are your car had been so neglected, there great deal the matter

was a

with it. They finally tinker. ed up all the kinks - but the shock of that bill almost proved fatal.

Patrons of this Garage find 'it a whole lot chenger have us keen their cars top-notch condition time. It's the nest way avoid those thocking repair bilir.

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An unusual photograph chowing the winner of a raos on the Mineola track (N.Ÿ., U.S.A.) taking the load on a bend.

DENNIS LORRIES.

HUGE ORDERS BOOKED.

Tho Times In a

years in getting to the 8000nd million.

And five years is not a very

long time to look forward in mat-

ters of national import. I won-

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recont der if anyone is officially looking SERVICE and ECONOMY

16sue dovolad considerable forward for those five years? If

amount of

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зрас to review by their commercial motor correspondent of the Dennis 2-2 1⁄2 ton tip-waggon, the vehicle submitted for the purpoco being one of a large number ordered for overseas by the Crown Agents for the Colonies.

I "open a book" on the subject, the odds will be 100 to 1 against

FACTORS WHICH WILL COUNT.

Can you picture what the road conditions will be like in your own particular little part of this country if the motor-propelled trafilo were doubled? Can you'

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The leading oil companies of viealise how the existing confu: IF NOT A THORNYCROFT-BUY AN ENTIRELY BRITISH LORRY-

Great Britain have purchased during the past twonty months .over 1,000 of these chassis, the. model being the direct result of a world tour conducted by Sir Raymond Dennis for the purpose, of studying on the spot the requirements of motor transport, the conditions under which it would" "oporate In each of the countries that he visited.

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sion would be worso confounded?

Of more importance, can you visualise how really national the use of motor vehicles will then become? How the motor will enter into every phase of in- dustrial Britain? How vital it will then be as a prime factor in the trasport of industrial and do- mostio Britain -

Can you appreciate how much! The special features of the

more "National" a riso of nine- machine consist of # small pence per tin of petrol would turning circle, radiator in-then bo? Can you appreciate the creased cooling capacity, vory trading magnitudo and vital im- officiont braking a bigh clearance. portance of purveying something (the back dxle gives approaching 1,000,000,000 gallons minimum of 11 inches.) There of motor spirit per annum. We io also a good margin shall use the vehicles more as we of power in the engine, and develop their use, and the extra- ordinary petrol economy of motor- bicycles will be gradually re- placed by the still more extra- ordinary potrol economy of the small car.

our

SAFETY FIRST FORESIGHT, And what of the Safety First conditions when we have twice: the number of motor vehicles on)

roads? It is, of course, obvious that, other things romain- of vehicles in use, the greater the] ing oqual, the greater the number]

danger.

A Dennis 2-14 in tipping torry. accessibility to all working parts han received spicial attention, while every part of the chassis is

Yot whether the suggested built to jig and accurately measured and texted by exports it is quite certain that in the period prove right to a year or so, in order to ensure perfect inter- ohangeability so that replace-very near future we shall have. ments go into position without any fitting. It is not surprising, therefore, that this model, although designed to most over Roas conditions, is a very popular one with users of medium-sized motor vehicles at home.

The tipping goar ie of the threO- way type, having hydraulle twin rams with tops of the ball and sup |pattern and ateol fularum placos on which the body turns whon tipping at either side or at the end. The pump for supplying the поcessary pressure is contained in the oil reservoir box. A patent automatic valve puts the pump out of action when the body has reached its maximum angle of tipping in any diraction.

One of the vehicles actually supplied to the Hongkong Gov- ornment, and the subject of the test by the commercial motor correspondent of The Times, is

lustrated herewith,

THE SECOND MILLIÓN.

IS OFFICIALDOM PROVID. ING FOR DOUBLED MOTOR TRAFFIC? Captain E. do Normanville writes in the Daily Chr nicle-

A subject wo touched upon lightly recently is worthy of mora consideration than wo then gave It So let's onneider it to-day.

Wo have, just recently toppod the One Million motor vehicles mark. When shall wo top the,

over two million motor vebiolas on our roads, and if there is no official foresight or organisation to cope with those new condi- tions-well. Heaven help us!

In the States, you may bo thinking, have they not already got some 13,000,000 motor vehi clos? What is our more million by comparison with that? And! aren't they producing more at the; 4,000,000 per annum? rate of between 3,000,000 and

Despite their incredible mag- nitudo these figuros ato facts. But there is another fact also,

A GLIMPSE AHEAD.

I was always a pretty good dunce at geography, but I e-

love that A very excelent

worthy used to instil into my fooblo powers of

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that there are over 3,500,000 In planning your PICNICS or joy rides,

square miles of tho

United

Staten. And if that fickle jado don't forget K. 226.

Memory playa, me not false, we

cannot boast of much more than our livery

100 000 square miles,

So far as size is concerned, therefore, they have us "well bent," though" for purposes of more accurate comparison ong ought to have road mileage figures to work on. I suppose Romebody knows what they aro respectively but I'm not that Bomebody l

But the fact remains that un- leas someone offloial looks for ward those five years of motor-.j ing development, we shall be in the consomme !..

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There will be vast national A good car merits a good, clean, roomy

problems relative to road safety,

roads, traffic congestion, fuel garage. Ouly a limited number of cars ping facilities, getting into and an now be accommodated.

Reconil million? What will con-supplies, parking placer, shop"

ditions be like when we do? And

is there anyone in the happy land.

The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd. to be state of affairs?

art and Constant European Supervision.

3950 A. 3. Alliston, Service Manager,

out from towns, passing through

them. trafo ignalling and con- trol--and so on.mp

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of Offfolaldom looking forward and organising for that shortly:

..........I repeat that five years is a Bince the Automobile Anno has taken us some 30 years short time to look forward an tion began 2811 outthin Gray millions, but, it such a national problem,, Now for the Sirih, F Milkautoriau me if 10 are very in the time to do it, not panic number of member

than, say, five to six-meksures when it is on top of um tag Ireland tha

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